French “Psychological Violence” Ban Under Fire
The French parliament voted unanimously June 29 to give final approval to a new law to criminalize “psychological violence,” prompting criticism from judges...
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Cuba Releasing 52 Political Prisoners
Following a meeting on July 7 between Cuban President Raul Castro and Roman Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Archbishop of Havana, the diocesan office...
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The World Cup: An Expression of Our Friendship With All
In his inaugural speech as President, Thomas Jefferson entreats us as a people, a nation, and a government to be friends of all...
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CNN Editor Fired for Praising Late Ayatollah With Hezbollah Ties
Octavia Nasr, a senior Middle East editor at CNN, has been fired from her position after writing in a post on Twitter that she...
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Euro Likely to Keep Losing Value
The grand hopes of a decade ago that the euro, a common currency of the E.U., would lead to a golden age of...
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Adding Refueling to the Fire of U.S.-Iran Tensions
“Airports in Britain, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates have refused to offer fuel to Iranian passenger jets after unilateral sanctions imposed by...
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‘Big Brother’ Monitors Conversations in European Cities
In a scenario that could have come from George Orwell’s famous book 1984, a controversial government surveillance system that uses hidden microphones to...
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Dutch Admit More Bad Global-warming Science
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency reported on July 5 that evidence it put into the 3,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has...
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Elian Gonzalez and Immigration
The American government, over the last decade, has been notoriously remiss in keeping illegal aliens from crossing our border with Mexico. The Arizona...
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China, Taiwan Sign Trade Pact Linking Economies
Trade representatives of mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan signed a trade deal called the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)...
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Doubts Grow In Whistle-blower “Suicide”
New revelations in the suspicious “suicide” death of whistle-blower Dr. David Kelly point even more strongly to the possibility of murder and a...
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IMF as Global Fed: G20’s Agenda Behind the Agenda
The recently concluded economic summit (June 26-27) of leaders of the G8 and G20 nations in Toronto was, according to most media coverage,...
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Coronation in Communist North Korea
What is the political ideology that governs the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea? Communism, its government proclaims. Communism, on paper, rejects dynastic rule....
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Chavez Regime Nationalizes U.S. Oil Rigs
After socializing and devastating vast swaths of the Venezuelan economy, socialist “President” Hugo Chavez announced that his government was nationalizing a fleet of...
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Sweden Bans Home-schooling, Religious Instruction
The Kingdom of Sweden took a dramatic turn toward totalitarianism with the adoption of a sweeping new education “reform” package that essentially prohibits...
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